Placebo analgesia: Findings from brain imaging studies and emerging hypotheses

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 173-190

  Kong, Jian ^a,d   Kaptchuk, Ted J ^b   Polich, Ginger ^a   Kirsch, Irving ^c   Gollub, Randy L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; fMRI; Pain; PET; Placebo; Placebo analgesia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PLACEBO ANALGESIA; PLACEBO EFFECT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 37748999383     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.2007.18.3-4.173     Document Type: Review

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